Today in the News: 2M Facebook, Google, Twitter passwords stolen

News on a big hacking scheme, Paul Walker, and France and Bob Dylan.

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Stuttgart Daily Leader - Stuttgart, AR

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Posted Dec. 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM

Posted Dec. 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM

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"We don't have evidence they logged into these accounts, but they probably did." - John Miller, a security research manager at cyber-security firm Trustwave. The company announced that hackers used malicious software to steal the usernames and passwords for more than 2 million accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and more.

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